The other sellers in the market were buzzing with disbelief and envy.
"Can you believe that? He actually paid 150,000 gold coins for that ship."
"It's unbelievable."
"He must be the child of some wealthy and powerful family."
"We should have tried harder to get their attention," one seller lamented, shaking his head.
"If we had just pushed a bit more, those 150,000 gold coins could have been in our pockets," another added with a sigh.
They all shared a sense of regret. If only they had managed to catch the eye of Aditya and Riya, they could have made a sale that day—a sale so big that the profit from it would have set them up for many days to come.
"We really missed an opportunity," one seller moaned.
"Absolutely. That old man is so lucky," another grumbled.
"And he wasn't even trying to sell that ship, but look at the profit he made!" a third chimed in, his voice tinged with jealousy.
